interop between satellite providers, ground stations and Azure.
At the end, they show it coming together to use a predictive model to identify ships from orbit and build predictive models. They’re really doing lots more than I know about with Azure.
“That Was Then… NAD 3020 | What Hi-Fi?” https://www.whathifi.com/features/that-was-then-nad-3020
Yup, nailed it. Ready for the next step, but a little rueful about moving on.
Went down the rabbit hole this evening, starting from a post on CDM
My friend Martin turned me onto this David Sylvian album when we were young, and listening to some of the raw stuff triggered bits of memory. I didn’t know he came out of the band Japan, and the Bryan Ferry/Eno/”My Life in the Bush of Ghosts”… connections. When I did music, I used to listen to Jon Hassell and Holger Czukay, both in this video (I didn’t remember that they were part of this album!) so off I go to find them. Czukay died, I find, in 2017, and there’s pointers to things like this
which I’d never heard, nor that he was a student of Stockhausen (I think everyone ended up being related to Stockhausen, eventually). Memories of Can, and Sylvian, and Roedelius and all. Nice way to spend a couple of hours.
Just went to Delta airlines to change some details on the tickets I booked for Julie and Terry. I’m told by the automated phone system that the wait time is on the order of “one hour and fifty minutes”, and I should use the website. The website has no mechanism for the changes I wish to make.
update: their “message us” option reports “Sorry, the app is having technical difficulties”. So they can’t handle text messages, either.
update: their messaging came up! and 15m later, I got someone on the other end named An-May who without fuss changed the details. So this bit worked well.
Imagine VR not as passive experience, but as the ability to “play” all those immersive elements – from 3D forms and architectures to spatial sound – live like an instrument. That sums up what has made the Patchathon artist intensives with PatchXR so engaging. Here’s the newest work from late this year, made in just days by invited artists, live in VR.
— Read on cdm.link/2021/12/vr-becomes-a-fluid-medium-a-music-video-you-can-play-a-playground-in-patchxr-patchathon/
Mass representative democracy https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/9069.html
Have lots of representatives (one per thousand people or so). Have a hierarchical system for small ad-hoc committees to consider issues as they come up, which percolate up through the hierarchy competing with other proposals so the one with biggest enthusiasm wins. Use the internet.
Interesting mention of “rational ignorance”, the idea that the average citizen has limited information about any given issue but is capable of making rational decision-making.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/03/opinion/vaccine-hesitancy-covid.html
It’s class, the lower groups having been increasingly left over the past few decades to fend for themselves. And specifically the idea that government increasingly shifts health care onto individual choice. So as a result you don’t get vaccinated for the common good, you get it so you don’t get sick. And this doesn’t work.
Episode 16: From Owing to Owning https://medium.com/sidewalk-talk/episode-16-from-owing-to-owning-58d7874c803b?source=rss—-355679162549—4